LinkedIn For Dummies. Joel Elad

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how to cancel.

      9 Click the blue Start Your Free Trial button to complete the process.

Snapshot of the LinkedIn page where you have enter billing information.

      FIGURE 1-9: Enter your billing information.

      

If you decide to stop subscribing to a LinkedIn Premium account, you must go to your Settings & Privacy page, click Account Preferences on the left, scroll down to the Subscriptions & Payments section, and then either click Switch Plans to change the level of your premium subscription or click the Cancel Subscription link to cancel your premium account. Follow the on-screen instructions to switch or cancel your Premium subscription. (See “Looking at the Settings & Privacy page,” earlier in this chapter, for information about how to reach and use this page.)

      Signing Up and Creating Your Account

      IN THIS CHAPTER

      

Joining LinkedIn with or without an invitation

      

Registering and setting your preferences

      

Connecting with people you already know on LinkedIn

      When LinkedIn first launched, it grew primarily through invitations — you joined only if someone who was already a member invited you and encouraged you to join. However, membership is now open to anyone 16 years or older (as long as the user hasn’t previously been suspended or removed from LinkedIn, of course). You can have only one active account, but you can attach multiple email addresses, past and present, to your account so that people can more easily find you.

      You’ll be presented with some configuration settings during the sign-up process that might confuse you until you’re more familiar with the system. Fortunately, you can customize all those settings later, but for now, I suggest some initial settings. In addition, based on your initial settings, LinkedIn recommends people to invite to your network. This chapter touches on the initial recommendation process; in Chapter 5, I discuss the ways you can grow your network more extensively.

      Joining with an invitation

      When a friend or colleague invites you to join, you receive an email invitation. The email clearly identifies the sender and usually has Invitation to connect on LinkedIn as its subject line. (There’s a chance, though, that the sender came up with a custom header, because LinkedIn now has built-in options for the sender to choose a custom reason for the invitation.)

Snapshot of the LinkedIn page where you have to click on a button to send invitation to connect.

      FIGURE 2-1: An invitation to connect on LinkedIn.

      When you’re ready to join LinkedIn with an invitation, you’ll start with these two steps:

      1 Click the button or link from your invitation email.A new window appears that goes to the LinkedIn website, as shown in Figure 2-2.FIGURE 2-2: Provide your name and create a password.

      2 Enter your email address, and create a new password for your account. If you want to use a different email address from the one used for your invitation, you can change the details by clicking the Not You? link below the Email field.

      3 Click the Agree & Join button.You are taken to the next part of the sign-up process, where you provide basic information that LinkedIn will use to create your account. I cover the remainder of the sign-up process in “Completing the sign-up process,” later in this chapter.

      

Try to choose a password that no one else can guess. You should use a combination of letters and numbers, and avoid commonly used passwords such as your name, the word password, a string of letters or numbers that are next to each other on the keyboard (for example, qwerty), or a password that you use on many other sites.

      Joining without an invitation

Snapshot of the LinkedIn login page.

      FIGURE 2-3: Join LinkedIn from its home page.

      Completing the sign-up process

      Whether you’ve been invited to join LinkedIn or created an account directly from its home page, LinkedIn requires some basic information beyond your name and email address to finish creating the basic account. When you’re ready to complete the sign-up process, follow these steps:

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